St James's Church, Piccadilly

1685–1692 (later Archbishop of Canterbury)

Thomas Tenison

1692–1695 (in opposition to Wake, removed by House of Lords adjudication in 1695)

Peter Birch

1693–1706 (later Archbishop of Canterbury)

William Wake

1706–1709 (also Bishop of Norwich from 1708, later Bishop of Winchester)

Charles Trimnell

1709–1729† (philosopher)

Samuel Clarke

1729–1733 Robert Tyrwhitt

1733–1750 (also Bishop of Bristol then Oxford, later Archbishop of Canterbury)

Thomas Secker

1750–1759 (also Archdeacon of Colchester, later Bishop of St David's then Bath & Wells)

Charles Moss

1759–1763† Samuel Nicolls

[21]

1763–1802† ^[22]

William Parker

1802–1825† (also Dean of Canterbury from 1809)

Gerrard Andrewes

1825–1845 (later Dean of Lincoln)

John Giffard Ward

1846–1853 (later Bishop of Lincoln then London)

John Jackson

1853–1895 John Edward Kempe

[23]

1895–1900 (formerly Bishop of Sydney)

Alfred Barry

1900–1914†

Joseph McCormick

1914–1918 (later Archbishop of Canterbury)

William Temple

1918–1922 Herbert Priestley Cronshaw

1922–1954† (also Archdeacon of Hampstead)

Charles Lambert

1954–1967 (formerly Archdeacon of Doncaster)

John Brewis

1967–1980 (formerly Dean of Brisbane)

Bill Baddeley

1980–1998 Donald Reeves

1999-2009 Charles Hedley

2010–

Lucy Winkett

was choirmaster from 1902 until 1905, when he left for a similar position in New York.

Leopold Stokowski

Sir , baptised 13 February 1743.

Joseph Banks

baptised 1757.

William Blake

baptised (as John Stuart) on 20 August 1773.

Ottobah Cugoano

baptised 2 June 1776.^[24]

George Thomas Smart

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Lord Chatham

John Ross and Alicia Arnold (the paternal great-grandparents of ; who wrote the American national anthem) were married.^[25]

Francis Scott Key

The Scottish composer married Mary Ann Melvill on 12 February 1744.

James Oswald

founding partners of the furniture makers, married sisters in a double wedding here in 1762.

Ince and Mayhew

and Angelica Kauffman, 1767. Horn was an imposter who was already married and Kauffman was a successful artist.^[26]

Frederick de Horn

explorer of Australia and the Bass Strait, married Elizabeth Waterhouse in 1800.

George Bass

portrait painter, married the actress and dancer Arabella Menage in 1804.^[27][28]

Michael William Sharp

Georges-Alexis, marquis d'Amboise and Louisa Barwell, daughter of Richard Barwell, Member of Parliament, in 1815.

the architect, married Julia Shaw in 1819.

Philip Hardwick

married Harriet Smith in 1826.

General Sir Robert Arbuthnot, KCB

Prince Friedrich Wilhelm von Hanau, eldest son of -Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel), married actress Auguste Birnbaum in 1856.

Frederik William, Elector of Hesse

Also in 1856, George Augustus Hopley, the Belgian Consul to Charleston South Carolina, in the US, married the French-born Felicité Claudine Rancine on 26 July. (George later died in Paris on 28 May 1859, aged 52.)

On 5 November 1865, , explorer of Africa, married Florence Barbara Maria von Sass, a woman he had rescued from the white slave trade when she was a girl. He was twenty years her senior.

Samuel Baker

In 1873 the actor and dancer married the actress Martha Isabella 'Bella' Moore.

Fred Vokes

an aviation pioneer and air racer, married Minnie Miller on 16 August 1916. The ceremony was conducted by John E. T. Evitt, Curate.

John Cyril Porte

an author and poet, married Nancy Nicholson in the church in 1918. The best man was George Mallory.

Robert Graves

the American heir and son of Robert Wood Johnson I (co-founder of Johnson & Johnson, married Ruth Dill, the sister of Diana Dill, in 1924.

John Seward Johnson I

MP, married Emma Broadbent, daughter of Michael Broadbent, in 1984.

James Arbuthnot

The marriage of Flora Ogilvy, granddaughter of , and Timothy Vesterberg, was blessed in the church on 10 September 2021.

Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy

buried 1735

John Arbuthnot

equerry to Frederick, Duke of York

Sir Charles Asgill, 2nd Baronet

FRS, FSA, physician to King George III (memorial in church)

Sir George Baker, 1st Baronet

one of the first professional women artists, buried 1699

Mary Beale

artist and designer (memorial in church)

Robert Anning Bell

Lieutenant-General Sir , KCB, British Army officer and colonial governor

Colin Campbell

poet and writer, best known for translating the work of Michel de Montaigne from the French, for his contributions to The Compleat Angler and for the influential The Compleat Gamester (memorial in church)

Charles Cotton

physician to the British Royal Family and obstetrician to Princess Charlotte of Wales. He became famous due to his role in 'the triple obstetrical tragedy' of 1817 (memorial in church).

Sir Richard Croft, 6th Baronet

(also known as "Old Q.")^[29]

William Douglas, 4th Duke of Queensberry

equerry to King George II, buried 1764

William Elliot of Wells

notable caricaturist

James Gillray

British Army officer who became Lieutenant Governor of Jersey (memorial in church)

Lieutenant General Hugh Mackay Gordon

The , Lord Chamberlain to Queen Caroline of Ansbach

Earl of Grantham

younger son of James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton

Lord Anne Hamilton

Field Marshal , British Army officer who served throughout the 18th century

Studholme Hodgson

anatomist (memorial in church)

William Hunter

Ecuadorian scientist (memorial in church)

Pedro Vicente Maldonado

and his wife, Magdalen MacDonald (memorial in church)

William McGillivray

mathematical historian and astronomer (memorial in church)

Stephen Peter Rigaud

(1728-1790) actor and theatre owner

David Ross

18th-century surgeon-dentist and philanthropist, remembered for founding the Royal Masonic School for Girls (memorial in church)

Bartholomew Ruspini

botanist, the first bluestocking^[30]

Benjamin Stillingfleet

(1624–89)

Thomas Sydenham

early British visitor to Tibet, interred 1802

Samuel Turner

marine painter (memorial in church)

Willem van de Velde, the elder

marine painter (memorial in church)

Willem van de Velde, the younger

Frances Deering Wentworth, wife of

Sir John Wentworth, 1st Baronet

poet, painter and printmaker, now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age

William Blake

surgeon, histologist and anatomist, best known for his research using microscopes to study various human organs

Sir William Bowman, 1st Baronet

physician and early pioneer in the research of kidney disease, particularly known for his description of Bright's disease

Richard Bright

artist and Bluestocking, equally famous for her "paper mosaicks" and her lively correspondence

Mary Delany

architect

William Curtis Green

British Army officer who served as Colonel of the 4th (King's Own) Regiment of Foot

General John Studholme Hodgson

Sir , watercolour and oil painter, predominantly of landscapes

Herbert Hughes-Stanton

painter, draughtsman, poster designer and lithographer

Francis Ernest Jackson

Sir , eminent physician, who became recognized as an authority on cholera and kidney diseases

George Johnson

cricketer, Canon of York and Chaplain to Queen Victoria, King Edward VII and King George V

Joseph McCormick

prolific sculptor of architectural and monumental works

Frederick William Pomeroy

Sir , painter and etcher

Henry Rushbury

Sir , Anglo-American artist

James Jebusa Shannon

Sir Arthur Vyell Vyvyan, KCB, DSO, officer in the Royal Navy in the early 20th century and later a senior officer in the newly created Royal Air Force

Air Vice Marshal

portrait artist of the late romantic school who sometimes worked in the style of the Italian Renaissance

George Spencer Watson

zoologist, writer, bookseller and naturalist, admired by his contemporaries for his precise scientific work

William Yarrell

London Architecture, written by Marianne Butler, published in 2004 by Metro Publications,  1-902910-18-4

ISBN

List of Christopher Wren churches in London

List of churches rebuilt after the Great Fire but since demolished

List of churches and cathedrals of London

Official website

Detailed architectural description and history from the Survey of London

Deanery of Westminster (St Margaret)

Piccadilly Market at St James's Church Piccadilly

360° panorama inside St James's Church Piccadilly